As already shown, the weather resistance in the 5D II is pretty darn good. I mean, when have you ever seen it rain more than 0.4" in 3 minutes? That's like being in a tropical storm.
ichiro17 wrote:
Now I've been reading English my entire life, in fact I speak it every day because its my native language but if someone wants to clarify for me, isn't Galbraith saying that they chose the better autofocus for this camera with the intention of making servo better?
Yes, but why, considering this camera's intended audience (admittedly not likely to be sports shooters)?
Seems to me they'd be more apt to optimize One-Shot for the 5DII, and Servo for the 50D, but it appears to be the reverse.
sskoutas wrote:
I'm a PC guy right now, but looking to move to Mac in the next 3 months. Anyone know what the OS10.5 recommended configurations would be?
Mac will not have a version of CS4 with 64 bits, (lightroom 2.0 already is 64 bits).
A good configuration:
iMac 24" 3.06 Core 2 Duo CPU (I have an imac 24" with 2.16 Ghz and works like a charm with 2GB)
4GB RAM
Gforce 512 MB
Etc,...
Better one
Mac pro with whatever you want to put in. (you can upgrade a big room of extras there)
apple seems to be working on a new OS called Snow leopard that will make things easier for 64 bits computing it seems. Btw, Leopard already handles 64 bits computing.
Daniel Heineck wrote:
Lastly, and maybe I'm weird, but why would wedding pros, landscape dudes (liveview is probably best here), etc need an absolutely crushing af system? It's not like these things are moving that quickly, so why not use MF and place the focus where you want? The center point in AI-Servo works great for action stuff, where you're more likely to want to keep things in the middle (as to capture them) and crop in post.
Try to focus with any of the 5D's outer AF points on an eye and see what happens... We are talking about simple indoor portraiture... Nothing fancy... Yes, that's right... Probably on the ears in 75% of the time. It happened to me. And I used two 5D's. Think center AF point only... Focus-recompose baby
Jeff wrote:
He posts so much, it becomes quite hard to overlook without an 'IGNORE' button. Develop one of those Richard, and we wouldn't be having this conversation!
Respectfully,
Jeff
ocean7 wrote:
GOOD LORD there is a "hide me" button now!!! Just when I thought I would leave these forums because of that special someone. Bye bye, you know who you are!
Long live FM forums and its developers!
Hmm, good catch... Cool! I think? Has anyone tried clicking on it?
I wonder, if I click on my button, will it remove me from this madness? I can only hope...
Acutally, the 5D is unique in that it uses a separate microprocessor to control the AF, unlike the 40 and 50D which use the Digic chips.
Not quite accurate. All of the cameras with DIGIC actually have a separate processor handling auto calculations and directing lens movement. The 1-Series cameras are different in having two processors handling AF: One calculates, the other moves the lens.
I've already spoken of that. The article has quotes from a "Canon employee," who could be anybody--the kid who does the coffee run. There is nothing in the article that gives the opinion of an actual Canon engineer.
No Canon engineer would have said there had been no "formal tests." The only person who would have said that would be someone who has no clue whatsoever of the very much very formal testing regimen that all their products must endure.
Daan B wrote:
Try to focus with any of the 5D's outer AF points on an eye and see what happens... We are talking about simple indoor portraiture... Nothing fancy... Yes, that's right... Probably on the ears in 75% of the time. It happened to me. And I used two 5D's. Think center AF point only... Focus-recompose baby
RIght. This is a type of image I take rather often, with kids and such things (and an occasional wedding too). With my 1D2 you have a perfect hit pretty much every time. Focus and recompose is very difficult with shallow dof and even ever so slightly moving subjects. I don't know which AF points in that camera is high precision, cross type etc, but is sure works.
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